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Greetings dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant

podcast. I am talking to you from somewhere in the Midwest. Actually, I'm talking to you from the World Headquarters of the Show Me Institute in lovely St. Louis, Missouri.

More about that a little bit. This week's episode of the Remnant is brought to you by the Bonson group, as well as the annual William F Buckley Prize dinner in Chicago this year.

I'll tell you more about both of those things in a little bit. Let me anticipate some criticism up front if I sound all Jeb Bushy in terms of being low energy. That's because I am low energy. It's been a kind of a grueling couple days.

And I'm also plagued with, you know, I mean, I'll be a particularly observant Jew, but I do honor young Kippur to the extent that I feel incredibly guilty about my poor Jewishness.

And that's factoring into all of this as well. I'm joined here by Jack Butler. Jack, how are you doing?

I am well. I'm amused and maybe flattered that you spoke of me as a colleague or at least something approximating and equal in your introduction.

Yeah, I'm amused that you heard it that way. And so we don't have a guest today, so we're going to do a quick, I don't know if it's going to be quick or not.

Sort of ask me anything episode and take go where the conversation takes us. So where to begin, Jack, where do we get what we're not going to talk about the Kavanaugh stuff.

Simply because by time this airs, who knows what's going to happen next. I'll just say that I am increasingly vexed by the whole thing and I tend to side with.

If you want to know what I think about all this stuff, read what read our national reviews editorial read the stuff that David French has written and some of the stuff that Andy McCarthy has written.

And by all means, stay off of Twitter because it will force you to sort of lower your esteem for humanity by one whole letter grade if you spend too much time on there from what I can tell.

So moving on from that, Jack, what you can drive this train a little bit. Where should we start?

Well, the questions from the AMA have conveniently congealed into four categories. And they are silly questions, pet questions, pop culture questions and nutrition questions.

So which category would you like to begin with?

Let's take nutrition for 200, please.

Wait, does this mean you have to answer these in the form of a question like jeopardy?

I'm going to try. Let's not take this stick that we did not plan on further than it needs to. So no.

Okay, then. First question. Can you rank your favorite cigar types or countries?

Yeah, so I kind of can't in so far as I am not despite my my love of the leaf.

I am not an expert on cigars. I sort of have the same view towards cigars that I do towards wine. I like the wines that I like. I am not obsessed with the zebelines consumption of these things in so far as I honestly think that while there is such a thing is really bad cheap wine.

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